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2007-05-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-31 07:51|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Both Russia & ChiComs are flush with cash these days. They are re-arming in Russia and spending like a drunken sailor on new capabilities in China. Until money tap is shut down, look for a lot more of this from both of them.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-31 10:26|| 2007-05-31 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Why "W" puts up with this continuing rhetoric from Putin, I don't know. I just wish he would tell 'puti-poo' to f*** off, just once!!

Posted by smn 2007-05-31 11:10|| 2007-05-31 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia has long vacillated between desperately wanting to be like westerners and rejecting everything western at all. It reflects their personality, half European and half Asian.

It has been said that they pine for the bistros of Paris, but when they visit them, they ache to be riding on horseback in Siberia, and visa versa.

But as the saying goes, when a Russian acts like a European, he is lying and intends to betray. Only when he acts like an Asian can you trust him.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-31 14:01|| 2007-05-31 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 So it's back to the old cold war, huh? At least we got some great spy novels out of it. Aren't the Russians supposed to be havink another election soon?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-31 15:28|| 2007-05-31 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The Kremlin is understandably nervous about the spread of nuclear and ballistic missile capability among its neighbors, including China, Pakistan, India, North Korea - and even Iran. (Ironically, Russia bears considerable blame for the proliferation; it's been selling technology and other know-how for years.)

In other words: Putin is whingeing because Russia's actions have come back to bite them on the ass. If these fascist morons hadn't proliferated everything but the kitchen sink, maybe we wouldn't need to be building the Missile Defense System in Europe.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-31 15:41|| 2007-05-31 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 The most important unintended consequence of what is primarily a domestic PR move is that it drives the recently elected Merkel and Sarkozy more strongly back to the US. Pootie is going to have a much more skeptical partners for long term energy deals. Maybe he can trading oil for food from his Chinese friends.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-05-31 15:54|| 2007-05-31 15:54|| Front Page Top

#7 --Putin longs for Russia's heady superpower days - and so does much of his public. --

It's in their psyche/their genes, goes back centuries.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-05-31 17:55|| 2007-05-31 17:55|| Front Page Top

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